Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — Personal Official Appointments. [ARTICLE]

Personal Official Appointments.

The pHblic will never be made to believe that the appointment of a relnriv* is made on the ground of merii bioite, uninfluenced by famOv views; nor eau they ever see wit h approbation offices, the disposal of which they entrust to thftii Presidents for public purposes, divided out as family property. —Thomas Jefferson. Jings! Mr. Jeffeison is more severe on our Ben than was Bishop Potter. Closing out millinery and all kinds of men’s straw hats, at just one-half price. Chicago Bargain House.

The pretext upon which the coal mine owners ar a holding thousands of miners in a starving condition, savs the Globe, is that they must secure a lower scale of wages in order to make mining remunerative. It is a manifestly absurd and false pretense. Consumers are forced to pay any price for coal the mine owners may unite in de« manding. There eau be no dispute about that The difference of 10 or 20 cents a ton for mining —a differeaoe which to the hardworking miner marks the line ben tween decent subsistence and partial starvation—need not take a cent from the mine owner. Mi* ers’ wages are added to the price of seal &Bd paid by the consumers.

The people of the country prefer cheap eoal, and will buy at the 1< west That is entirely natural. But they do not expect or aak that miners and their families shall go hungry in order that the eoal buyer may save $lO en the priee of a hundred tong of fuel Mine owners and cral dealers find no difficulty in effecting combinations to raise or maintain prices to or at the point that insures large profits. They will have to .find a better reason than any necessity in the matter of remnnerat on for the inhumanity that dictated the lockout, if they expect the public to regard *<hat proceeding as anything else than barbarous tyranny.

Men’s straw hats 3 cents to SI.OO each. Clothes pins 1 cent a dozen. 6 one pint tin cups for 10 cents. 3-oz. carpet tacks 1 cent per paper. Chicago Bargain House. Hon. John Lee, the veteran rail road projector proposes to build a road from Ft. Wayne to Chicago parallel with the P. Ft. W. & C. and is trying to enlist the citizens along the route in the scheme.